Peeps in Europe!

[PouleChick]

Huuuuh... really?

We still have frost some mornings here, but the days are kind of turning warmer and warmer now...
(Hoping it will get some of my hens to get very broody soon...!)

Yep! It was 24c when I got home from work yesterday! However today is blowing a hooley and cold. Evenings are still cool, we are still lighting the wood burner! Back to around 18-20 from tomorrow and for the foreseeable. We've not had a frost in a couple of weeks, I'm guessing it's waiting to wipe out some fruit by doing a late one again! Last year we lost all our Mirrabelle plums and our Walnuts, very sad!

Is it the Cantal that is called the Milles Vaches? I couldn't be doing with the grey of all that rain, bad enough here, I could never live in northern France or the UK (tried that a couple of times - yuck!) the grey just does my head in.

Are you French? If you are your English is amazing (speaking as an English teacher in Lycee / college!).

It was Aprils fool day.
, it still is in the US.

Could have been that but it started on the 31/03! I think my laptop internet browser is asking me to update, no doubt something like that!

Not sure if it managed to beat TudyBot, though

Missed that!

 

[BDutch]

TudyBot was a doozy. Got me good. I thought it was some underpaid intern replying at inhuman speeds.

I missed the Trudybot . On my way ….

 

[chickengr]

I couldn't be doing with the grey of all that rain, bad enough here, I could never live in northern France or the UK (tried that a couple of times - yuck!) the grey just does my head in.

x2. ran away from england, don't want to visit either. nice country, nice green parks, amazing nature BUT too much rain and very little sunshine.

 

[fluffycrow]

x3. Can’t stand constant grey weather, or cold weather for that matter.

Especially in the spring, what that day of sunshine hits you, and you can just feel that the winter is over. Couldn’t imagine living somewhere with cold and gloomy spring days.

I like it here, even if that means putting up with 43 degrees Celsius summers heat waves and wildfires for 4 months out of the year

 

[BDutch]

I suppose its best to live in the same sort of conditions/climate where you grew up as a child.

But weeks of rain and cloudy weather doesn’t make me happy either. I love the sun. And I loved spending long vacations in Greece, S-France, and other Mediterranean countries.

The last decade this has changed bc if the climate changes, our climate has ‘improved’ with long spells of sunny weather. And in the midst of summer its often too hot in Mediterranean countries. So we dont plan to go far south in summer anymore. We started to go south in winter and early spring instead. And for summer vacations we go without reservation to where-ever the weather forecast says it’s nice.

 

[BantyChooks]

I suppose its best to live in the same sort of conditions/climate where you grew up as a child.

I wonder the same. I love foggy, rainy weather. Nothing better than a walk in the park on a cold, wet day. Direct sunlight hurts my eyes. Perhaps little surprise then that I think England is great.

 

[BantyChooks]

However, here in Poland, I did not appreciate the sun setting at 3 PM during the winter. Dreary days in rolling hills and woods are a world apart from dreary, sunless days in the middle of a city. The latter is extremely disheartening and I am glad it is past for now.

 

[Papaye]

Hi.

Yep! It was 24c when I got home from work yesterday!

Ooooh... Here in Cantal, I hardly get 24°C during Summers...

(But my place is especially humid and windy - and so rainy, oh my God! -, so it could also explain the almost constant cold temperatures here...)

We've not had a frost in a couple of weeks, I'm guessing it's waiting to wipe out some fruit by doing a late one again! Last year we lost all our Mirrabelle plums and our Walnuts, very sad!

Huuuuh...

My Plums are flowering, but sadly have had to endure frost and hail these last days...
I have not had fruits on them for several years now...!!

Is it the Cantal that is called the Milles Vaches?

No : in Limousin.

They have a similare number of cows than us in Cantal, BUT : contrary to us, they have more people than cows living there.

I couldn't be doing with the grey of all that rain, bad enough here, I could never live in northern France or the UK (tried that a couple of times - yuck!) the grey just does my head in.

Yeah...

I have moved here when I was a teenager, but I'm originally from the South - where 38°C/40°C in the shade is (or was when I was a kid, at least) the norm most of Spring and Summer...

First year in Cantal was so hard on me I had actually caught a cold... in JUNE!
Ugh...

Now, cold temperatures don't bother me so much anymore; but it still took years for me to be able to endure them...

Not an ideal climate, really... but still, I really love living here!

Are you French?

Yes, I am.

If you are your English is amazing (speaking as an English teacher in Lycee / college!).

Thank you.

Funny thing is : most of my school years, I was, in fact, really terrible at English... and really not interested by the idea to get better!
Ah, ah!

 

[PouleChick]

However, here in Poland, I did not appreciate the sun setting at 3 PM during the winter.

Oh my goodness, couldn't cope with that at all!!!!

 

[BantyChooks]

Oh my goodness, couldn't cope with that at all!!!!

Well, I exaggerate slightly. Sunset isn’t until slightly before 3:30 PM during December. So it isn’t quite as bad. But, when it doesn’t snow (to have light reflection at least) or get at all sunny, it feels like eternal night.